Health Information Literacy of The Elderly in Senior Citizen Club, Bangkok Public Health Center
Keywords:
Health information literacy, Elderly peopleAbstract
This research aims to assess the health information literacy of the elderly people in a senior citizen club at the Bangkok Public Health Center, including the comparison health information literacy among the population of the study and classified by gender, educational level and income by using quantitative research methods. The sample group used in this research consisted of 378 elderly people in a senior citizen club in the Bangkok Public Health Center by using a multistage randomization method. The data collection tools were tested. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and tested the hypothesis with t-test statistics. The results showed that the elderly people had a low level of overall health Information literacy, and when considering each aspect, found that access to health information, health information assessment and the use of health information indicated a low level of health information literacy. When comparing health information literacy by gender and income variables, it was found that the elderly with gender and different income levels had no difference of health information literacy, while elderly people with different levels of education had different levels of health information literacy.
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